Quotes About Self-reliance

Coaching, so you are no longer needed.

The notion that "no one is coming" was somehow terrifying to accept. The idea that no one was going to rescue me from my circumstances is an idea that I might never have accepted. That idea sounded too much like the final abandonment. It

It may not be your fault for being down, but it is your fault for not getting back up

What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality component is helplessness?

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failure to approach her, as her own self-deprecating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

that born leaders don't fit the corporate mold, that I was destined for bigger things than hitching my wagon to someone else's star.

Don't assume responsibility for his emotional wellbeing. Don't be so quick to bond. And don't feel sorry for him.

Most important: Don't start trying to become the perfect woman/wife/mother figure in an effort to convince him that you're the woman he's looking for. This is the time for you to remember that you are a smart, independent, emotionally secure woman who should be asserting her own sense of identity.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. —Abraham Lincoln

Look to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways and be wise: Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, Provides her meat in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. —PROVERBS 6:6–8

es mejor provocar un estallido, por enorme que sea, que estar en deuda con el mundo por preservarte».

The food-crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.270

As the economist Ludwig von Mises put it centuries later, "If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread.")

If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread

Also, people single out freedom as a component of a meaningful life, whether or not it leads to a happy life.11 Like Frank Sinatra, they may have regrets, they may take blows, but they do it their way.

Ludwig von Mises put it centuries later, "If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread.")

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Roots are for trees; people have feet

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

I love myself, I no longer need Cupid...

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.